Wednesday, February 4, 2009

What Movie Would You Bring to a Desert Island?

After another afternoon spent in a cycle of watching kids at the art table, cleaning up, coloring, playing solitaire, and watching the waiting room's featured film on repeat, I began to wonder what movie(s), if any, I would willingly watch on repeat during the surprisingly frequent quiet moments during my volunteer shift. That is, the times when there are no kids in the waiting room, or the kids who are there are either too old for coloring, not interested, or very shy.

The afternoon movie, to put it gently, wasn't particularly good. It was a direct-to-video Snow White movie, with outsourced animation that was roughly equivalent to the animation in Saturday morning cartoons. Not the kind of animation in a cartoon like Spongebob Squarepants or TaleSpin (which are both respectable cartoons), but the kind of animation that makes Disney's direct-to-video sequels look good. The voice actors didn't even get credits.

Clearly, I would not bring this movie to a desert island. Probably, I would bring Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, which you could watch with or without sound and still enjoy.

What would you bring?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

The Lord of the Rings trilogy, the extended editions...

Passport Holder said...

Casablanca. The lines just get better each and every time you hear them.